Promote What You Love

Facebook has a nice new feature that allows one to "snooze" a person or page for 30 days. 

I find myself using this feature, and the "unfollow but still stay friends" feature more and more these days. I am tired of people calling those who do not agree with them tacky names and posting mean memes about them on their public pages. 

I am also tired of seeing people who I know have needed financial help not that long ago, shaming other people for being poor and needing help. How quickly they forget. 

I am also tired of people posting things that simply are not true! Just because it is on Facebook does not mean it is carved in stone. Look on some of the fact-checking sites before blindly passing on garbage. 

Better yet, focus on the good stuff! What nice things are happening in your lives? Even in the bad times, there is usually at least one good thing that happens in a day. Post that! 

If you have not heard from me or I have not "liked" your posts, it probably has nothing to do with that so-called algorithm. I probably just need a break from the negativity for a while. 

I'm not saying I won't ever post anything negative. But, as much as it possible, I am going to focus on the good stuff. 

Random Musings

So far, February has been a largely "lost" month thanks to the flu. My poor husband spent his 64th birthday taking care of me instead of celebrating. I hope to make it up to him when I am all better. I did let him know that I would both still need him and feed him now that he has reached the age of the popular Beatles tune. 

Of course, the most frustrating thing for me is the sore throat/hoarseness/loss of voice. This has become an almost yearly "thing" for me and I have learned that the best way to deal with it is to just rest it and wait for my voice to come back. I haven't been to church all month. Not my norm.

There have been some positives. Being "in" gave me time to finish an art project that I had been working on for weeks. I have been looking for ways to "do" art with my eyes and hands giving me fits and I was very pleased with this collage. 

Another nice thing happening while I am down is the Winter Olympics. I am a figure skating fanatic and every 4 years I become a total couch potato for 2 weeks. I have also learned to enjoy curling of all things and I enjoy many of the other events as well. If I have to be down, I am thankful for this timing!

I am past ready to resume normal activities, but my doc tells me that may be a week or more away. I already have another art project going and another week of Olympics to watch.

I can manage.